Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
15th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. 28 May - 27 November 2016. Title: Reporting from the Front. Artistic director: Alejandro Aravena.
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Medellin used to be one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Drug cartels took advantage of (senseless) global demand and local inequalities to create a parallel government of fear and insecurity. It took sophisticated and courageous political willpower to understand how the city could be used as part of the solution and not be the problem. (…)
This was the framework within which the architecture of Giancarlo Mazzanti came into existence. Despite its iconic autonomy, Mazzanti's best known project, the Espafia Library, has to be seen as part of a system of interventions that include transportation (cable car), sanitation (water and sewage), services (electricity, phone lines), and accessibility (stairs), all of them built along the cleared space for the construction of the cable car.
(From the Curator's Rationale)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
15th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. 28 May - 27 November 2016. Title: Reporting from the Front. Artistic director: Alejandro Aravena.